Import purchased music to iTunes

Hi! I just bought a new iMac, but I'm having some problems getting the old music I purchased into the new iMac. I can see a list over all the music, but not an option to import it to iTunes. Can anyone help me? Thank you

There are two reasons for FCP. Maybe only one for iMovie.
1. You do not buy the music from iTunes and you do not own the music. If you read the agreement you made when you created your iTunes account, you will see what you actually are purchasing when you do a download. Thus in regard to FCP, which is considered a professional application, FCP will not allow the use of such rights restricted material on the reasonable assumption that the user will be selling or attempting to sell or offer to sell the FCP project.
2. Regardless of source or whatever was "purchased" in regard to audio, FCP sound tracks will accept and allow rendering of audio at 48kHz only. That technical requirement excludes the iTunes format which arrives at your CPU at 44kHZ as well as compressed as well as mp3 etc. etc.
iMovie has no such limit. But it is very likely some real owners of the tunes on iTunes may have incorporated encoding that restricts the use to one "save" (the download).
3. Yes you can attempt to circumvent the agreement regarding iTunes material, including the ones mentioned on the iMovie forum. But keep in mind that when you manage to do that, the final product is merely a 48kHz version of a compressed audio file. Lots of audio information is missing. Some folks hear it, some folks cannot, and some do not care.
4. In the case of iMovie (or FCP) the big cheat is when one either sells, offers to sell, or allows the Movie (FCP) project to be used in connection with revenue generation and that project contains stuff you down loaded(and converted) from iTunes and do not have permission( always with a fee) from the actual owner. This includes iMovie projects (FCP project)to be used in connection with generating a flow of money for whatever cause whether or not you the video maker keeps the money.
The music is owned by its creator and whomever rights to that property were assigned. iTunes does not and cannot offer the actual property.

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Hi,
Thanks. I know how to do that, however, I thought it only works with the imported content not the purchased ones. The reason for wanting this was that I keep all my music in NAS drive for SONOS (the wireless music system) will need the music to be in NAS so that it can play music while the mac is on sleep mode.
Anyhow, I will try again and let you know if it does work.
Thanks again.

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